Banner
exchange programs

You use a banner exchange program to slowly increase the
number of visitors to your site. They do not generate much
traffic when you are just starting, but they help bringing in
extra visitors when your site traffic starts to finally take
off. To bring in a single new visitor you may have to display
other people's banners to several hundreds of your existing
visitors. If you don't have those visitors in the first place,
joining a banner exchange will not help you.

We are currently participating in several international banner
exchanges. We will only report on the ones that really helped us
to get traffic. Some of these banner exchange programs have
referal programs, giving me extra 10% of the credits for banners
displayed on sites that joined from my pages.

International Banner exchanges

We have had our best results until now with Net-on banner exchange and Linkbuddies.
These banner exchanges have many features allowing you to bring
more traffic to your site and generated an excellent response on
our banners. The Net-on banner exchange has a better
exchange rate. One of the best features of these two banner
exchanges is an excellent referal program. If you signup new
members from your pages, you will get extra credits based on the
number of banners they display.

If you want to make it on your own, and are not interested in
creating your own downline with Linkbuddies or Free banners, try bizway. They
offer a very generous exchange ratio of 1:1, i.e. after an
initial period they will show one of your banners for every
banner you display for them. Unfortunately, their other features
are still minimal. But they say they are still working on it.

Australian Banner exchanges

If you have a site specifically targeted at
Australian visitors, you'll need an Australian banner exchange.
We joined the Linkaustralia on several of our sites.

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